Description

Full Length Play

Dark Comedy

It's Virgie's eighty-fourth birthday and she is making a big decision. Seeing herself as an artist first and foremost, and then a mother, Virgie has not reckoned on her family and friends to thwart her plans. This moving black comedy reimagines the process of ageing with the emotional relationship of the family.

Premiere Production:
April De Angelis' After Electra premiered at the Theatre Royal Plymouth, in April 2015 before transferring to the Tricycle Theatre, London.

Characters

Casting: 4M, 4F

Available Material

It's Virgie's eighty-fourth birthday and she is bucking convention. But, always more committed as an artist than a mother, Virgie has not reckoned on her family and friends' determination to thwart her plans.